Mostly sunny and continued cold
today. High near 25. Ciear and
cold tonight. Low around 10.
Mostly cloudy and lot as cold
tomorrow with wchance of some
snow at night. Probability of
snow near 0 today and tonight,
20% tomorrow; 50% tomorrow
night.
VOL. 68, No. 49
p ; .,,„„ oai from the associated. press
News Roundup:
From the State,
Nation & World
The World
Cambodian Discussions Described as Cordial
PHNOM PENH,. Cambodia Cambodian officials re
ported yesterday that the first meeting of U.S. Ambassador
Chester Bowles and Prince Norodom Sihanouk was "frank
and cordial" but they disclosed no details of the hour
long conversation.
Bowles arrived in Phnom Penh Monday on a mission
for President Johnson to discuss the use of neutral Cam
bodia as a sanctuary by Communist troops fighting in
Vietnam. There was a possibility the talks would range
over the broader issues of Vietnam peace talks.
An informed source said Bowles probably would con
fer with Sihanouk again today and leave Phnom Penh
tomorrow.
Informants said Sihanouk spoke to Bowles in English
and expressed the Cambodian position with his "habitual
affability." The meeting was at the prince's modernistic
Chamcar Mon Palace, set amid luxuriant tropical gardens.
Cambodian officials said "useful points of view were
exchanged."
Viet Cong Battalion Destroyed in Fight
SAIGON Defensive fire of an American infantry
outfit and its artillery virtually destroyed a 350-man Viet
Cong battalion yesterday.
A five-hour fight 31 miles northwest of Saigon pointed
up the price the Communists are paying in blood for their
ofensive efforts of the new year, win, lose or draw.
U.S. spokesmen announced 103 of the enemy died—
many from howitzer shells that gunners call "Killer Jun
iors"—in a human wave assault on a bivouac of the Ist
Battalion, 27th Infantry, 25th Infantry Division.
On this basis, since military statistics show for every
one killed in such wide open operations, only a handful
of the Communists could have emerged unhit.
Five Americans perished, two in a bunker struck by
an enemy shell or rocket, and 28 were wounded.
The Viet Cong battalion, which a prisoner told interro
gators had North Vietnamese as replacements for half its
ranks, could be written off at least temporarily as a fight
ing force.
No Reason Given For Transplant
CAPE TOWN, South Africa Dr. Christian N. Bar
nard said yesterday he can give no reason at this stage
why the three human heart transplants in the United
States have all encountered early postoperative difficulty
while both of his transplants made good initial progress.
Two transplant recipients in the United States died
within hours and the third was in critical condition four
days after his operation.
The world's first human heart transplant patient,
Louis Washkansky, made good progress at first after
Barnard's team gave him a new heart Dec, 3, but died
18 days later from pneumonia.
Barnard's second patient, Dr. Philip Blaiberg, was feel
ing fine - eight - days — after — the 'operation.
Barnard said he doubted if the small size of the donor
heart was responsible for the death yesterday of Louis
Block at Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn, N.Y.
The Nation
Surveyor 7 to Photograph New Moon Area
P,B,SADENA, Calif Surveyor 7's human controllers
got set yesterday to scratch the moon's rugged hide in a
new and wildly different area—the south-central highlands
near the crater Tycho.
The three-legged spacecraft, loaded with instruments
to satisfy scientific curiosity, landed softly Tuesday night
and televised 1,225 pictures of a science-fiction landscape;
ragged ridges, huge boulders, treacherous craters.
Most interesting of the instruments is a hand-sized
scoop on an extendable arm, a twin of that carried by
Surveyor 3 last April which dug several trenches and
helped prove the lunar surface is strong enough to bear
the weight of manned landings planned as early as next
year.
It also will be used to move from spot to spot a small
box containing a device to analyze the soil by radiation.
Surveyor 7 is the last of a $5OO million series of me
chanical moon scouts and the fifth successful one. They
have televised more than 67,000 pictures.
Youth Corps Slashes Number of Dropouts
_ PITTSBURGH The Neighborhood Youth Corps is
slashing the number of school dropouts and surprising
educators.
A survey taken by the Board of Education shows that
youngsters in the corps are dropping out at half the rate
of their classmates.
"This was contrary to what might have been ex
pected. Quite frankly, we were surprised at the results,"
said Dr. Louis J. Kishkuras, assistant superintendent of
schools.
He said the federally-financed program, which pro
vides pupils in poverty areas with part-time jobs, is in
tended to keep kids in school. But the response is far
greater than expected.
"By definition, an NYC enrollee is a potential drop
out," said Kishkunas. "But we rechecked our records and
came up with the same figures. The results are valid."
The report showed that of the 20,941 pupils in the
city's 16 high schools in the 1965-66 school year, 2,077 were
in the youth corps. The drop-out rate for non-youth corps
pupils was 8.43 per cent versus a drop out rate of 4.24
per cent for youth corps members.
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The State
Cause of Student Illness Remains Unknown
LOCK HAVEN, Pa. A medical official at Lock
Haven State College said yesterday it may take days or
even weeks to determine the cause of the illness that
affected 175 students.
The students, representing about 9 per cent of the
total enrollment, took sick Tuesday night and early yes
terday and reported to the college infirmary for treatment.
In the absence of official diagnosis, there were un
confirmed reports that the students may have suffered
from food poisoning or a virus infection.
College officials tended to discount the possibility of
food poisoning, but tests were being conducted with the
results not expected for at least 48 hours. •
_ .
Dr. Kenneth L. Brickley, college physician, added that
a virus infection was "difficult to isolate" and if one were
present it might take several weeks before a complete
diagnosis could be made.
Brickley described the illness as gastro enteritis, or
inflamation of the stomach and intestinal tract. The symp
toms included nausea, diarrhea, weakness and in some
cases fainting.
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Quarterly System To Stay
—Collegian Photo by Pierre Benicht'
NORTH HALLS residents listen to University President Eric A. Walker discuss Uni
versity policies. Expressions on the listeners faces indicate "that man in Old Main" is
really human.
Senate
By JANE DAVIS
Collegian USG Reporter
The University Senate's ap
proval of a "pass-fail' grading
system drew prais, from the
Undergraduate Student Govern
ment yesterday, as Vice Presi
dent Jon Fox called the Senate
action "a great step forward
in student government."
"The approved "pass-fail"
system shows what hard work,
determination, and continuity
can do in carrying through a
project," Fox said. "It is
among the first on state uni
versity campuses."
Work on the project began
last September at USG En
campment. James Sandman,
former chairman of the Edu
cational Affairs Committee, in
troduced the bill to USG.
From there it went to the
Senate's Committee on Resi
dent Instruction. A modified bill
was passed Tuesday, but the
details of the system will be
defined by the individual col
leges.
"USG, in conjuction with the
Faculty Senate,: plans to dis
tribute a handout at spring reg
istration describing the pro
g_•am," Fox said.
Under this program, students
can take courses outside of
their major without affecting
their all-university average."
The "pass-fail" bill is only
one of a series of academic
programs of USG. "Bounce
AWS Considers
Elex, Dress Code
This term's executive elections, off-campus visiting
permission for coeds and coed dress regulations were dis
cussed last night at the first Association of Women Stu
dents Senate meeting of the year.
Faith Tanney, AWS President, announced that elec
tions for the six executive positions of AWS will be held
campus wide on Feb. 14 and 15. Any coed with at least
a 2.25' all-University average is qualified to run for all
these positions, except that of president. A candidate for
this position must have served on the AWS Senate.
, Further election information will. be announced at a
later date.
The Senate discussed the possibility of changing the
existing off-campus permission rule for coeds, which stipu
lates that coeds must not be in a male's apartment after
the closing hours of the residence halls. Senate members
decided to take the question to the individual dormitory
councils for further discussion, before a resolution is made.
Coed dress regulations for the Sunday noon meal
currently require women students to wear "a dress and
heels." This rule was criticized by several senate members
who advocated changing the requirement to less formal
dress making it the same as that for dinner meals during
the week. This question will also be taken to the area
councils for discussion.
Miss Tanney read a letter to the Senate in which
Otto E. Mueller, Director of Housing and Food Services,
informed her that at the present time it would be impos
sible for individual telephone lines to be installed in each
dormitory room, and for each room to have its own tele
phone. Mueller explained in the letter that the Bell Tele
phone Company is presently not equipped for such a
move, but said that the plan is being investigated.
Collegian Captionists
Conjure Confusion
Well, have we finally got Yesterday, we mis-labeled
the captions in the correct Ernest C. Pollard head of the
places•? • Department of Biophysics as
No, readers, the editors of D.S. Hiller, director of the Uni-
The Daily Collegian are not versity's Dußois Campus.
giving up. We're working on But we re straightened out
the big things, such as putting now. From now on, mus'cians
the right words under the right will not be called science build
ings. And we'll try to correct
ly identify our own faculty
sar.nma7v.alsa
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pictures
Two days ago, we labeled
the Bach Aria musicians as
a new science building.
UNIVERSITY PARK, PA., THURSDAY MORNING, JANUARY 11, 1968
USG Started Pass-Fail
Action Praised
Back," another program, will
be a new attempt to stimulate
and change the academic en
vironment of the University.
According to Joseph Chirra,
chairman of the Academic
Awareness Commission, stu
dents here are experiencing an
"intellectual lethargy."
"One reason for this situation
is location," said Chirra. "We
are somewhat isolated from
mess media. Students aren't
aware of what is going on, or
if they are, they don't want to
voice an opinion."
Chirra said that another rea
scn for the present intellectual
atmospnere is "the influence of
sororities and fraternities. "It
is not 'cool' to debate and talk
about issues," he said.
"Dormitory life is also intel
lectually stifling for students,"
he continued. Work is being
done by a USG committee to
investigate the situation in Uni
versity dormitories.
Incoming freshmen have to
be hit to encourage them to
voice their opinions," Chirra
said. "Juniors and ... •-hors are
already indoctrinated into the
present atmosphere.'
'Bounce Back," scheduled to
begin this term, will be a five
fold program. First, there will
be union debates on University
and national issues.
Professors and students will
compose the teams. The first
By PAT GUROSKY
Collegian AWS Reporter
members.
Thanks for your patience
debate is scheduled for Mon
day, Jan. 22 at 8:00 p.m. in
tha Hetzel Union Building Ball
room. There will be no admis
sion fee.
The second area of the pro
gram concerns East Falls' ex
perimental college. Two USG
delegates will attend the lec
tures in East, then examine
possibilities of expanding the
program to •an all-university
level.
Isolated
An intramural deba, xi team
will be the third part of Bounce
Back. Nittany Union Debating
Society, similar to the proposed
organization. dissolved several
years ago.
A fourth area will investigate
the "decline of humanism" on
th- campus. "The system is too
technically oriented in some
areas," said Chirra.
"Students should be taught
to deal with social problems,
not just to do a job. The Uni
versity should develop people
who are going to be responsible
citizens of the world well as
the nation."
•
An effort to make the under- •
graduate curriculum more flex
ible will be the concluding part ans f i dd s ays p ursui t
of Bounce Back. The main ob
jective
ts t will ta ke b e a t to r n
atpermite
courses'stu - t bad unlikely
for some required courses.
Applications Set
For Orientation
Students interested in be
coming Orientation I.eaders,
Area Coordinators or Com
mittee Chairmen of Orienta
tion for 1968 can pick up ap
plications at the desk in the
Hetzel Union Building. Appli
cations are to be returned
by Jan. 19.
Orientation Leaders intro
duce new freshman and trans
fer students to activities, stu
dent government, fraternities
and sororities, and other fa
cets of University life. They
also guide the new students
in meeting professors, dis
cussing campus issues,' and
learning about the classroom
situation before actual classes
begin.
NEW YORK (AP) Black
Power militant H. Rap Brown
took sanctuary inside the Cu
ban Mission to the United Na
tions last night, after a police
man sought to arrest him dur
ing a pushing incident on the
street outside.
By telephone, Brown told a
newsman: "This happened on
mission territory. My rights
are in a gun . . . . They have
no right to question me."
Police Capt. William Lake
man was barred by the mis
sion's claim of diplomatic im
munity when he tried to enter
the building on Manhattan's
upper East Side. He then held
a sidewalk consultation outside
with Brown's lawyer, Stephen
Hyman.
It was decided that , the com
plaining officer, Patrolman
Richard Gleason, would obtain
a summons in night court,
charging Brown with "harass
ment" of a police officer, a
criminal charge.
This could be served on the
24-year-old firebrand leader of
the Student Nonviolent Coordi
nating Committee at any time,
without requiring a physical
confrontation and arrest.
Lakeman said the incident
East Halls College
Cubans Shield Brown
Police Harassment
Walker Discusses PSU;
'We've Lost Our Character
By RICHARD RAVITZ
Collegian Administration Reporter
University President Eric A. Walker
ended speculation about changes in the aca
demic calendar last night, saying he sees
no change from the present quarterly sys
tem to the former semester system.
Speaking to an informal gathering of
students in the Warnock lounge of North
Halls, Walker said different proposals on
the calendar may be submitted but "I can
tell you what the vote will be" on any major
change.
Walker said the faculty has been un
happy about the present system, but that it
also disliked the alternatives. "We chose the
system to make them the least mad," he re
marked.
The president spoke at length on finance,
planning, and the character of the Univer
sity. His audience was small and attentive.
Students in the snack bar peeked in from
time to time, casting glances at the chief
administrator, whom many of them had
never seen except in a formal atmosphere.
Walker began his remarks with several
thoughts on the financial situation. "I hope
your tuition doesn't go up," he said. During
the winter vacation the president considered
sending letters to students' parents explain
ing the need to raise tuition costs because of
the delay in appropriations coming •from
Harrisburg.
$2OO Raise Considered
One of the letters, which was not mailed,
stated that tuition charges would mount to
$350 per term if the state assembly did not
act. During term break he received many
letters from students and state residents, in
cluding a letter from a coed who offered to
donate $1 to help the fiscal situation improve.
"It takes one-third of a million dollars
per day to run Penn State. This is a lot of
money and we don't get it easily," Walker
said. He continued, "Twenty-six million dol
lars is operating expenses—just to keep it
running for a year. I often wonder where
the money goes to."
Citing specific expenses, Walker said $3
million goes to the library and $2 million is
spent on computers. "We get about $5O mil
lion froth the state, and $26 million from the
Federal government, which is spent on fed
eral projects. We get an equivalent amount
from the students," he said.
"It's been 40 years since we've operated
on a deficit. We don't spend money that we
don't have to and we have good .manage
ment," the president told the students.
"At perm State ypu're getting what the
Ivy LeagUe colleges'claiM it costs $3,000 to
produce. Actually, we think you're getting
an education for $450 that costs three or four
times as much to produce," Walker ex
plained.
Service Obligation
The president added that the University
has an obligation to provide services for the
Commonwealth in return for monetary. sup
port. He said the University maintains of
fices for research throughout the state be-
MIKE MANSFIELD
began as Brown and an aide, lifted recently when he re- ' He is free on $lO,OOO bond
Bob Smith, emerged from a turned from a visit to North in an indictment charging hini
visit to the mission shortly be- Vietnam. with inciting to riot and arson
fore 5 p.m. In the vestibule, Guerilla War - last July in Cambridge, Md.
Lakeman said, Brown in pass- One of the most outspoken of While under that indictment,
ing pushed Gleason, who was the Black Power militants, he is-accused of violating Fed
in uniform an d on routine Brown has called for "guer- eral law by flying from New
guard duty at the building. rilla war" by Negroes against Orleans to New York with a
Gleason followed the two whites, and the "burning carbine in his possession. He
down" of cities where Negroes has pleaded innocent to the
Negroes to the street, where feel they ar e discriminated Federal charge and is free on
Patrolman Alfred Smith, also against. bond from New Orleans.
in uniform, was maintaining a .
Brown was said to have been
carrying a package and Glea
son asked. "What have you
got there?"'
"Why don't you mind your
own business and go away?"
Brown was quoted by the
policeman as replying.
Pushing Match
Gleason said a shoving
match ensued as he tried to
take Brown and Smith into
custody. No punches were ex
changed, and - the two Negroes
ran back inside the mission,
while an armed mission guard
held - the door open for them.
Brown last April succeeded
Stokely Carmichael, another
Black Power advocate, as
chairman of the Student Non
violent Coordinating Commit
tee. Carmichael's passport warr.
cause the people of the state support the
University with their tax money.
State legislators who bear the brunt of
harsh criticism for, the state's problems,
Walker said, perform a thankless task. He
suggested students thank their representa
tives for taking an interest in the University
and perhaps a telephone call expressing ap
preciation would be appropriate.
He added the legislator "would probably
swallow the phone" to hear kind words from
a college student.
The legislators are sometimes \ difficult
men to deal with. "If he- gets lousy football
tickets, or if his son or daughter doesn't get
admitted, I'ni sure to hear about it."
Walker said Gov. Raymond Shafer has
not yet signed the appropriations bill, but
on Christmas Eve he sent word that he
would.
The president suggested that a state in
come tax would be the best means of filling
the public treasury, although partisan dis
putes would probably prevent passage of
such a measure. "If the Republicans submit
it, it's a Republican tax. If the Democrats
propose it, it's a Democratic tax."
During the crisis, which he described in
December as the most "severe since the de
pression," Walker said the University was
borrowing at the monthly rate of $4 million.
"By Christmas we had borrowed about
$lB million from the banks. The banks con-,
sidered us a good risk so we had no difficulty
getting the loans," Walker said.
Turning to the question of admissions,
Walker said he was disturbed by the overly
middle-class nature of the student popula
tion. "We were established to teach practical
things to the disadvantaged. It hasn't turned
out this way, and this is unfortunate. I think
we've lost our character."
"Some people ought never to go to col
lege. Some are too bright and don't need it,
others are just wasting their time and the
University's time. They should already be in
some occupation where they can make their
living and be happy.
"We can't admit the disadvantaged be
cause we would have to discriminate in
favor of them in our admissions. We are
forbidden by state law to do this."
Disadvantaged Children
- •
Walker noted the College of Physical
Education and Health had a program spori
sored by a sportsman's club to bring slum
children to University Park to get a touch of
the countryside. The University does not
select the children.
Walker said in conclusion, "I'm not sure
we admitted the" right people."
The president said he felt a population
of 25,000 students should be the maximum
for this campus. Running a university any
larger would create an impossible tangle in
communications.
"In a large business or university, every
person ought to be able to go right to the
top, short-circuit the lines of communica
tions. And I would be foolish to object to
this," Walker said.
WASHINGTON (W) Senate Democratic Leader Mike
Mansfield said yesterday that conversations with President
Johnson have convinced him the United States will not
permit the pursuit of Communist forces from South Viet
nam into neutral Cambodia.
"It would be tragedy compounded on tragedy," the
Montana senator said in an interview. "I commend the
President for his unyielding attitude in that respect.
"I think I have a pretty fair idea of the President's
feeling on Cambodia," Mansfield said. "We have discussed
it from time to time."
Mansfield, back at the Capitol after a between-sessions
vacation, said he believes the President "has been subject
to very strong pressures" to authorize troop crossings into
Cambodia and perhaps into North Vietnam.
But he said he believes Johnson will resist either step.
U.S. Ambassador Chester Bowles is in Phnom Penh,
Cambodia, for talks with Prince Norodom Sihanouk on
Communist use of that neutral nation's territory as a
sanctuary from U.S. and South Vietnamese forces in the
Vietnam war.
Sihanouk had suggested that Mansfield might serve as
U.S. emissary on the ,matter. Mansfield said Bowles is the
best man for the mission.
Mansfield said a policy of pursuing Communist forces
into Cambodia would force the United States to boost its
:Vietnam troop commitment to 700,000 or 750,000 men.
Three Held on Drugs
Three University students were arraigned before Col
lege Township Justice of the Peace Oscar Buchenhorst at
2:05 a.m. yesterday, after a midnight narcotics raid Tues
day night by the State College Borough Police and the
Rockview State Police at an apartment at 428 W. College
Ave.
The students were charged with "possession, sale, and
use of restricted drugs."
In the Center County .jail, unable to post $5,000 bail,
were Alan Michael Talbot, 21, (11th-Political Science- Phil
adelphia), and Steven H. Pincus, 20, (11th-History-Phila
delphia). The third student, Saul Neubauer, 21, of Philadel
phia, was released after his mother posted bail yesterday
afternoon.
-The state police, who are now handling the case, were
unable to, estimate the amount of marijuana confiscated,
and reported that it is now in Harrisburg for laboratory
testing.
A hearing has been tentatively set for 1 p.m. Friday,
January 19.
Pincus was in the headlines last summer when he was
convicted of disorderly conduct in connection with the
anti-war demonstration staged July 4, 1967.
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